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- PublisherHale
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0709183224
- ISBN 13 9780709183228
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages158
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THE AMATEUR COMMANDOS
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Published by Robert Hale, London, 1980
ISBN 10: 0709183224
ISBN 13: 9780709183228
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Seller: A&F.McIlreavy.Buderim Rare Books, Buderim, QLD, Australia
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First Edition. 8vo. pp.159 with black & white photographs. original black hardcover in price clipped dust wrapper. During the Second World War at a time when Europe was cut off from beleaguered Britain two British soldiers conducted their own daring commando raid on German occupied France.That fact alone makes it a truly remarkable incident in that or any other war but the background holds even more incredible facts. Far from being commandos" these two braves" as a Special Operations Colonel described them, were not even combatant soldiers, but members of the Dental Corps. They set sail for France completely without permission and their secret preparations included their own do-it-yourself combat training. But that they ever managed to leave Britain was only the first of a series of miracles that attended their self-imposed mission, in which endurance featured as largely as excitement bizarre escapade or high adventure splendidly courageous .The private war of Sergeant Peter King and Private Leslie Cuthbertson must remain one of the strangest and if it were not true one of the most unbelievable war stories ever told. Seller Inventory # 195157
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